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’ I PAYING INVESTMENT A meeting of the veterans of the the name lonlftinlM given to whet Indian war will lie held at Wilson’s Opera House, In Medford, Saturday ■ II|II41I|IIII|X 'Hk’<;nciallv known as the BAD DIS- EASE. It is not confined to dens of tkx>. Mickey’and his family are by afternoon, to devise ways and means to vice or the lower classe«. • The purest the sounding sea at Crescent City. obtain the jiensions to which they art' and best people are sometime« Dr. Geo. H. Aiken of Fresno, Calif., entitled under the law pa seed by I infected with this awful malady .s sojourning in Klamath couuty. __ | through handling the clothing, Congress. It will doubtless lie drinking from the same vensels, Judge ami Mrs. IL L. Benson have well attended. using the same toilet articles, or otherwise coming in contact with person« returned to Klamath county from D. C. Herrin, a prominent member I who have contracted it. Salem. of the A. O. U. W., who is and has It logins usually with a tittle blister or sore, then swelling in the Reamos Chapter, O. E. S., has sus- lieen operating in Ohio and other east groins, u red eruption breaks out on Tan yaara aro X contracted a bad caaa pended Its meetings until the middle ern states, lately spent a few days in the body, sores and ulcers appear of Blood Poiaon. I eras under treatment Ashland, his former home. His wife in the mouth, the throat becomes of a pbyaiolan until I found that haoould of September. 1 do me no good. Then began taking Wealthy Evans has sued her hus is engaged in a like work in the ulcerated, the hair, eye brows and I oommenoed to Improve at once lashes fall out ; the blood becoming and in a very ahort time all evidence of band, Jas. Evans, for divorce. W. M. female department of the same order. more contaminated, copper colored the dieeaee disappeared. I took six bot- Both are meeting with considerable Colvig is her attorney. tlea and today am aound and wall. • splotches and pustular eruptions and H. M. wall Wall, > *®«rfatewn, Morristown, Taiuu Tana. sores appear upon different parts of Mrs. E. A. Hicks of Medtord, who succesa. 11. S. Dunlap, the veteran sexton of the body, and the poison even destroys the bones. has been visiting in Sacramento, Calif., the Jacksonville cemetery, Thursday S. 8. tj. is u Specific for this loathsome disease, and cures it even in the returned home a short time ago. worst forms. It is a perfect antidote for the powerful virus that pollute« exhumed the bodies of the two children Merle Anderson of Spokane and tile blood and penetrates to all parts of the system.. Mrs. A. Anderson were in Medford this of Harry and Rllla Angle, who died In Unless you get this poison out of your blood it will Medford several years ago and were week. They started for home Thursday. ruin you, and bring disgrace and disease npon burled In a neighboring burying- your children, for it can he transmitted from parent Mrs. IUlla Angle, who has been visit g round. They have since boon re to child. S. S. 8. contains no mercury or potash, ing in Jacksonville and Ashland, left interred in the first-named cemetery, u for her home In Wisconsin last Tuesday. beside the remains of Mrs. Anglo's but is guaranteed a strictly vegetable compound. • Write for our free home treatment book and learn nil about Contagion« The grand ball, which will take place mother, the late Minerva Phillipa. Blood Poison. If you want medical advice give us a history of your case, at Wilson’s Opera House Wednesday and our physicians will furnish all the information von wish without any II. H. Wolters, a brother of Chas. night, will be the social event of the charge whatever. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Al LANTA, (LA. W. Wolters of Talent, was killed in season. San Francisco last month, while follow Hon. Chas. 8, Moore, state treasurer, ing hia occupation as a teamster. The W. M. Ladd of Portland and Ed. Cross horaes he was driving ran away and of Salem are rusticating in Klamath throw him from the wagon, inflicting county. injuries from which he soon died. A. J. Stevens and C. E. Hooper of “Ham,” as he was familiarly called, Ashland have been on Poorman’s was a resident of Medford and Jackson (Founded I MV.) creek, looking for a location for a ville for many years. saw mill. Hotel Nash will probably fie re- THE CHAUT A LQUAS’ modeled and enlarged in the near fu MUSIC, ART AIND ELOCUTION. ture. Architect Palmer is drawing Assembly Was a Great Succesa—At Tld« School ofTerx to xlrlH » broao «rd thorough eduction, combined with the advanl*««« tendance Better Than the plans. of a healthful and reflned home It occuplc a Inix* «ud »ttractlvc building In the Immediate Usual. vlclult, of the Cllv I'ark The «amtacy condition ot the premier« h»« born made » matter ol Geo. Stevens of Brownsboro and L. apocl.l attention The bed chumbria, via»« and recitation room, are largo and tnoroughty A. Askew of Willow Springs district ventilated: and the conatructlou of the bulld’ug 1« such that every room 1« open to the kunllaht The annual session of the Southern Tbe greatral care ha« been taken to provide all the necraaary appolntmenla of a well- were Medford visitors one day during co nipped achiol. and to turnlah every taclbly tor training pupil« in th,- moat u| proved meitxaN Oregon Chautauqua Association was The alm or the aehool 1» to give thorough aud «rll-oruerea Inalructlon to glrla and young the Week. well attended and greatiy enjoyed, women, tilting them for collego when lliul la deaired, and to aid lu the detelouruent of true and womanly character. Thos. Bailey of Table Reek precinct lu some respects the programme was The Fall term opetiK September 1«, IUOI. A faculty of twenty competent teacher« tn* urea was severe.y bitten by a rattlesnake re better than usual, while the re :elpt.s tor children and young women that Individual care and Inatructlon neceaaary to the heal cently, and for a time was in a precari probably exceeded tli.,se of any held reaulta. There are four «killed teacher« In the Mualo Department alone «peclallala In Ari and Oartory, and native teacher. In French and Dorman ous condition. during the past few years. Provlalon la made for all athletic game« «ultable to women, an tennln, croquet taakel ball aud horaeback riding A gymr.aalum MixlUO feel, la In proce«« ot conairuclma Uncle George Khim, a pioneer of The following officers were elected bicycling which will offer still more opport unit I ■ tor healthful exerclae Linn county, a brother of Chas. K. to serve during the ensuing year : For Illustrated catalogue apply to MISS KLKANOR TEBHKTTH, Principal Klum of Ashland, has been visiting President, G. F. Billings. in this county. Secretary. T. A. HayeH. Treasurer, F. H. Carter. W. C. Latham is at Grant’s Pass, putting the new machinery of the S. P. VICK PKKSIDKNTS. D. & L. Co. in position He is a first- E. D. Briggs, Ashland. class machinist. H. C. Kinney, Grant’s Pass. The weather during the past week W. A. Carter, Gold Hill. ....Offerse You.... has been quite warm, the mercury I). T. Lawton, Medford. gamboling close to the 100-mark on Miss Lillian Julien, Yreka. lThroogh trains daily from Chicago several occasions. •Through trains daily from Nt. Louis A. J. Hanby, Central Point. Through train daily from Kansas City A.4 Palata ttey.w«. 8. H. Jones, Jacksonville. W. D. Beidlcman, a former resident Miss Emma Coleman, Phoenix. of Medford and Gold Hill, is operating 8. Sherman, Talent. the stage line between Ashland and J. Q. Willits, Lakeview. Klamath Falls. He was here Friday. L. F. Willits Klamath Falls. Judge Hanna and District Attorney I I Reclining chair cars (free), Pullman Palace Sleepers, Din GKNKHAL TRU8TKK8. Itcames returned from Grant's Pass ¡ng and Cafe Cars on all trains. Polite traiifmen. Perfect J. F. Norris, D. II. Jackson, Elmer Thursday, on which day the regular roadbed. Shortest line and quickest time. Tourist cars Patrick, G. W. Trefren, H. L. Whited. term of the circuit court for Josephine Mondays and Thursdays, 29(6 hours Chicago to Boston. DENOMINATIONAL TKUSTEKM. county closed. Ctiristiao, Mrs. L. Ganiard. Ed. Welch of Spikenard, manager of Baptist, Mrs. A. F. Eddy. C. S. CRANE, G. P. & T. A., St. Louis, Mo. Presbyterian, Mrs. J. K. Van Sant. the Welch Lumber Co., which is put ROSS C. CLINE, P. C. P. A., Los Anpdes. Congrcgati mal, Rev. G. W. Nelson. ting a large quantity of superior lum Methodist, Mrs. J. L. Downing. ber on the market, made us a pleasant Episcopal. Mrs. E. A Smith. * call Thursday. Catholic, Mrs. H L McWilliams. Dunkard, Dr. D. M. Brower. It is rumored, on good authority, that Hon. W. M. Colvig of Jackson ville and A. M. Cannon of Albany, two attorneys of ability, will soon open a law office in Medford. W. L. Halley is building a neat resi dence in West Medford, north of the M. E. Church, South, It has already “ I hive used Ayer’s Hair Vitor been rented by F. W. Hollis of the for thirty years. It is elegant for Medford Furniture Co. a hair dressing and for keeping the hair from splitting at the ends.”— Isaac Kent of Central Point, while J. A. Gruenenfelder, Grantfork, Hl. binding a load of hay a few days since, fell from the wagon to the ground, and Buy a Bottle of Hair-splitting splits breke his left leg at the thigh. Dr. Pickel reduced the fracture. friendships. If tne hair Miss Cora Sutton of Salem, who has splitting is done on your been visiting her sister, Miss Myrtle own head, it loses friends Sutton, left for Northern California Rub In well and for you, for every hair of Thursday. She enjoys an excellent your head is a friend. reputation as a photographer. Ayer’s Hair Vigor in Wm. Ennis of Klamathon, Calif., advance will prevent the who was formerly engaged in the saloon IT HAS CURED OTHERS. IT WILL CURE YOU. business in Medford, recently passed splitting. If the splitting through the valley, en route home from has begun, it will stop it. Hutton's Hasp Shot, the wonderful rtn.trover of »11 forms of inH«mmatlonln manor benaf Portland. He had one of his hands SI.M • Mil«. All tratfida. 50c and II per bottle. K. K. SUTTON, aolc proprietor and m»nuf»cturenAahland Ureson For ale at City Drug Store. Jscaaoovfile. end br Or J Hinkle CentraPoInt so seriously injured that it was neces If your druggist cannot supply yon, sary to amputate a finger. ■end us one dollar and we win express you a bottle. Be sure and give the name M m. Brown of Klamathon, Calif., of your nearest express office. Address, J. C. AYER CO, Lowell, Masa. has been in Southern and Southwestern Oregon lately. He has been engaged in several mining enterprises, but will now turn his attention to timber. We carry in stock a complete line of both hand Hon. L. R. Webster of Portland has visit DR. JORDAN’S anear and machine mafie harness. been visiting in Southern Oregon. At We make a specialty of hand made harness and the late election ho was elected county 1061 MARKET IT, SAN FR* *** AL judge of Multnomah county, with a guarantee every piece of work we turn out. ( Sept BMP Slitto «*4 •*T«Ptw.> n Woo], Stand Ip! The IarffwAt Anatomical lCueonai Prices reasonable. The present tariff has been protect salary of $3,00(1 a year attached to It. In the World. ing us for nearly six years, and trusts a rea feat attraction <n FAp City. A G. L. Schermerhorn, the well-known wonderful alyM for viaitora. have grown fat and saucy. but the contractor and builder, will soon erect a kno«»««. or any contract* vol y ruroMl by woolgrower, with the highest tariff residence for C. H. Lewis on the orch »Nt HpecUHnt on the Paciflo ever exacted, is not getting as much Ketabllabed M years ard he bought of Weeks A Orr some ,or his wool as tinder the lower tariff OR. JOROAN-FRIVATÍ 0I8EA8EI the rascally Democrats enacted. Why time ago. It will lie of unique pattern, ▼ MOM and MMldullO Seventh Htreet Medford, Oreilon *S«>4 mm on who are Buffering resembling the bungalow of the Orient. this is so is respectfully referred to from the effect« of youthful Indle- cretioua or uienmi In maturer the Woolgrowera' Protective associa Charley Anderson,eldest son of J. A years Mervmie and physical l»ahl ilty. I m tion. The balance of us who have to poten«/, lx»«t NatiÍMMad In all iiscompii- Anderson, who was well known in eatlotia; Spernaaterrtoaua, FrMotMter* buy tlie “cheap wool” clothing and rhePM. filoMorrhcBM, «llaot, Fr«<s«aey Mf UrlitaliMg, ot«. ny a combination of find it is made of cotton and shoddy Southern Oregon, perished while on remedies, of great curativo power, tbe Doctor would like to see the ail wool and a his way to Thunder Mountain district, has so arranged bls treatment that it will not only afford Immediate relief, but permanent yard wide cloth that would wear a together with a number of othora. He cure. The Doctor does not claim to perforin miracles, but Is well known to be a fair and was thirty-throe years old. month without getting threadbare. sq 11 ft re Physician and Hurgeen, pre-eminent In his specialty —DIa«MO«e of M« m . , Sher ff Rader brought to Jackson iTPHIMIt thoroughly eradicated t»em Juul a Coincidence. the system without the use of Nsrenrf. ville Thursday morning C. B. Matney, Tra«wu fitted by an KxperL RsUitaal Senator Hanim squirms considerably rnre for Btuptwr«. A g a lek and radical earc for Ftl«e. Flavor* and Fletnlm, by •ver the charge that lie favors the a pioneer and highly respected citizen Dr. Jordan*» special painless methods Pannma route for the canal in tlie in of App’egate. His mind has been RFKRY MAN applying tous wlU reontro Z PRACTICAL OPTICIAN 00 r honerf opinion of lNg com pial nt. _ terest of tlie transcontinental railroads affect«-«! sometime, and the authorities IFe wU QunrantM « ZOA/77PJF CTSXn thought it advisable to send him to the and threatens libel suits to those news pperv rose «on undertake. , C'nooiltatlnn FKEN and strictly prlvaMu AT MEDFORD. papers who lambast him. It Is rather asylum. He was examined in Judge ClfATiCfK* VF.RT Treatment personally or by letter. singular that nil tlie United States sen Prim’s court by Dr. Robinson, who Write for Roob. FNILOMtPIIT Will be In Jacksonville or. tbe Fourth of July nt the U. 8. Hotel. ators who nre "friendly” to tlie rail pronovnc.-l him insane. Mr. Matney MARRfA<iK. 'Í ail « d F k « s (A valuable ■Satisfaction 1» Guaranted to all patrons or money book for men. > Call or w rite roads are opposing the Nicaragua rout« was taken to Salem the same day by refunded. Examination Flee. DR. JORDAM A CO . 1061 Marital 61,6 F. or have been persuaded that the Pana Mr. Rader and Clias. Hamilton. rne route la tlie beat. valorem duties are assessed, although the price« entered are actual purchase prices. Moreover, the United States I government sent a detective to Eng Wire Rope Trust Gave the Re land to learn the price paid by Ameri can importers. Although this detective • publicans $100,000 In 1896. had free access to the ixxiks of at least ■ one English manufacturer and found ' nothing that did not verify the invoice THE PEOPLE HAVE PAID IT BACK prices, yet the customs officials here , continue to advance the invoice prices 1 xtr Dnile« W ere Fixed In INST auil on g< ids imixirted by Americans. I In some cases the importers say that ' th. Trust Vow Holl. In I’ro.perlty. I they make their prices out higher thHn 1 American« l'«y Nearly Three Time« the actual prices paid so that they will I Price« < hnraed Foreigner«—Manu not be penalized, as they would lie facturer. Hnll«io«rd. should the customs officials add more The almost criminal folly of the pro than 10 per cent to their invoice prices. tective tariffs of today, and especially Probably one-fourth of the Importers' apparent profits are wiped out by the of the inexcusable tariff on iron and oversealousness of the customs depart Steel goods, is well illustrated by the ment in serving the wire rope trust. iwire rope trust. In the next place, it is not easy for The manufacturers of wire rope have iiu|x»rters to find customers. Wire rope for years had a “gentlemen's agree Is usually one of the materials or prod ment” on prices, an agreement similar ucts. and a minor one, required in some to that of the manufacturers of steel construction Job of work. It Is Im rails or of structural steel or of sheets portant that the contractors obtain ur of most of the other products of the when desired all of the oilier and steel mills. The principal parties to more important prcducts. These they this agreement, pool or trust are John can be certain of obtaining only of A. Roebling A Sons company, Trenton. very large dealers in all kinds of iron N. J.; Hazard Manufacturing company, and steel goods and at present practi Wilkesbarre, Pa,; Washburn & Moen cally only of the steel trust. The ex Manufacturing company, St. Ixiuis, tent to which the steel trust is now Mo.; Roderick & Bascom Rope compa putting on the screws on the manufac ny. St. Louis, and the Williamsport turers. merchants and contractors who consume steel go<xls is not realized by Wire company, Williamsport. l'a. Realizing that the prices which can the general public, If a manufacturer be got for wire rope depend largely is dependent upon the steel trust for upon the duty on wire rope, the mem any one important material, lie cauuot bers of this trust began in 1896 to sow obtain it unless lie buys all his materl- seed for the big harvest of profits als from ihe trust, at least all the trust which they have been reaping since can supply. Not only this, but in many 189“. According to the statements of instances the trust will prescribe the some of the members, they contributed maximum prices at which and the ter $100.000 to the Republican campaign ritory in which this dependent manu fund in 1896. At least if all contributed facturer can sell his finished product their pro rata Shari's, as did some of and the railroads over which his mate the members, the Republican adminis rial must be shipped: also, if he does tration of 189" was indebted to this uot pay cash, the trust will inform him through what banks he must finance trust in the sum of $100.000. As the better grades of wire rope his accounts and give him other simi have always been aud still are made lar details of procedure to remind him largely from imported rods or wire of the new order of things and of bls (larger than No. 6» tlie trust wanted no loss of independence. Similar treatment is accorded to mer Increase on the duty on wire rods. None was made in the Dingley bill. chants and contractors. Practically, if The duty on wire rope, however, was not actually, the steel trust says to Increased by the amount of the in consumers, “Buy of us and only of us creased duty on coated or galvanized if you wish to continue to do business ■wire. The trust was also permitted to in this country.” As the trust is prac continue to benefit by the unreasona tically the only producer of many im ble tariff which compelled importers of portant products, like wire, tin plate, wire rope to pay the same rate of duty etc., nearly all manufacturers, dealers per pound on the central core of the I and contractors are at the mercy of the rope as upon the wire of which the trust. Even if a contractor couM get rope is composed. This central core all of his materials for any one job usually consists of tarred jute or hemp outside of the trust he does not dare and is used only as a ••former” around to offend it, for he has other contracts which to twist the strands. It has lit which require steel trust products. The tle or no value, but adds 5 to 10 per result is that he reluctantly submits to cent to the weight on which duty is as the trust's dictation. As a matter of fact many manufacturers, dealers and sessed. Havingflxed up the Dingley bill to suit big contractors now look only to the trust for materials and have ceased their tastes, they proceeded to reap their profits by putting prices at home up to to obtain quotations from outsiders and foreigners. Thousands of such the tariff limit, while lowering prices manufacturers and dealers are cursing to foreigners so that our rope is ex the truRt in an undertone while openly ported to every important foreign coun submitting to its terms and exactions. try with the fiossible exception of Eng It is this state of affairs, due to the land. As the duty on Imported wire bulldozing tactics of the steel trust in rope will average nearly 100 per cent, the business world, that makes it pos the trust charges domestic consumers sible for wire rope to sell in this coun more than twice what is charged for try for two or three times the price in eigners for its goods. England and for nearly twice the cost, In the following table are compared duty paid, of English wire rope in this net cash prices in America and Eng country. The wire rope pool, it should land. The American prices are obtain be remembered. Is now a part of the ed by deducting 00 per cent from the great steel trust and gets the benefit of price list of John A. Roebling & Sons the power of the trust to dictate terms company for galvanized transmission or and hold up most of the steel consum haulage rope coui[>owd of six strands ing industries. If all other steel goods and a hemp center, seven wire« to the were on the free list, the duty on wire strand. The ordinary discount to rope would undoubtedly limit the pow agents for this class of rope is only 40 er of the wire rope combine to extort and 12*3 per cent. But as some agents from the consumer. But, all steel goods get special discounts on some kinds of being protected by high tariff duties, goods, which, amount to GO per cent net, the wire rope trust can exact from ita I have taken this lowest possible price. victims much more than the amount of The Eugllsti prices are those quoted in the duty on wire rope, which illustrate« a letter written April 10. 1902, by a the beauties of high tariffs on goods leading English manutacturer to a which we are ex(x>rtfng to all parts of New Y ork denier. They are for gai- the world. BYRON W. HOLT. IV«nlze<l BB wire rope, six strands, each «even wires, and are f. o. b. Liverpool: »BICE OF GALVANIZED BTKEL WIRE ROH (CENTS PER FOOT). Approx imate clrcum- ference. «A 4 XH 3 2N 2Ü » IN England. America. American times English price. 7.44 2’4 «.n 15.84 2H 5.38 12.74 28, 4.71 10.12 21-5 3.53 7.30 1 2.M 6.16 1 2.1« 4.40 2 1.85 3.52 19-1« 1.53 2.86 1% 1.23 2.42 1 «4 .68 1 1.« 2 2-5 Here we see that the prices of ordi nary galvanized steel wire rope are from 1 9-10 to 2>u times as high in America as in England, and yet the American and English wire ropes com pete in both countries, if we deduct from the English price 25 cents per hundred pounds as the cost of getting American rope to foreign markets, we And that the actual export price of American rope must average only •bout one-third of the price charged our own consumers. How much of this difference is ac counted for by the tariff? Adding the duty, at least 2.4 cents per pound, and the transportation cost. 25 cent« per pound, we get the cost of English rope 4*4 Inches in circumfer ence, three pounds to a toot, as 15.39 •ents per foot, while the actual price charged here by the trust Is 18.92 cents. Thus our trust charges us 30 per cent more than the cost of laying down English rope In our markets even after paying an import duty of over 90 per cent on tbe English price. English rope 1*4 inches in circumference cost« 2.88 cents here, while the trust price is 8 52 cents. Thus apparently our Im porters of English rope are making profits of 20 or 30 per cent Why do tWy not cut price« and get all tbe busl- Accordlng to the statements of Im porters of wire rope, tbe customs ofll- •dcl«!« fnvnrlnbly advance prices of the jforelgn imported g-' d on which h J LOCAL NOTES Blood Polson Saint Helen’s Hall •••• PORTLAND, OREGON. A Boarding and Day School for Girls. Wabash-Niagara Falls Short Line i J TO BUFFALO equipment : Subscribe for the the Times Hair Splits DON’T STOP WORK for a Sprained arm, Ankle or back SNAP SHOT YOU ARE GOOD AS NEYV Hand Made Harness MUSEUM OF M-'TONY L. A. LUCUS <fc SON, I Dr. E. E I Emerson F A